I pissed off a female programmer once - she was looking at some COBOL on her terminal, and I was kind of looking over her shoulder, and I remarked, to no one in particular, "Why do I get the feeling that I'm looking at stone axes and animal skins?" (this was back when ST:TOS was still on).
Cheers! Rich
She doesn't need to. She's a woman, therefore, she will stop and ask for directions. ;-)
Cheers! Rich
Yeah, as a matter of fact - then again, all he had to do was point at it.
Cheers! Rich
The Mother of Everything.
Thanks! Rich
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Well, how nice! So his purpose in life was fulfilled - giving directions to a lost American. ;)
Michael
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Hello John,
I have.
I met one once in the mid '60's, but she then went into marketing.
But there are a great number of female I/C layout engineers.
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Hello Jim,
Same for PCB layouts. Most of my early ones have been done by women. However, the layouters that I currently use the most are men. Seems like it has changed.
BTW, in the division that I ran for a few years our R&D staff was about
25% female. The average age was also much higher than normal. Since we couldn't ask (at least not the women...) I can only guess but it was probably well over 40.
I've come across a couple of female scientists but none as engineers in electronics at all.
Also come across techie gals in film / video / sound but only at end user level.
Graham
surprised.
electronics
No female engineers? There are several in my group. In fact 2/11 in my department (one is the manager).
level.
Hmm, I guess I'll not go there...
Are any circuit designers?
John
That one made the estrogen surge, eh?
Nah- made your nipples bristle most likely...
It's interesting, not to mention sick and creepy, that you are far more obsessed with my body parts than I am.
John
No. Out of the 250 or so working on the project there are only two or three I'd consider to be circuit designers. In another post in the thread I mentioned that I'd only known one female circuit designer and she didn't last long (she was terrible - and dumb).
BTW, what's your definition of "circuit designer".
Someone who designs circuits! That means starting with a spec or need and selecting electronic parts and inventing connection topologies, and doing the required math to predict that it will work. I do this by buying parts that wind up soldered to boards (per my drawings) but some people work in silicon, designing ICs, but the effects are pretty much the same.
What a circuit designer ain't is...
A tech who gets a reference design and fiddles with it a bit. That's OK, but it's not design because he didn't invent it and probably doesn't understand it.
Logic designers who work only at the gate-and-up level.
IC process types. They may design the transistors used in circuits, but they don't design the circuits.
John
Not really- but it sounds like you're getting positively moist over the thought of it.
What a weird person you are, Fred.
John
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